Business English Vocabulary

It's becoming more and more common for students to learn Business English to improve their career opportunities both at home and abroad in English speaking countries.

A 2012 survey of non-native English speakers found that although 92% recognised that English communication was important for success in their work, only 7% felt they had the necessary English level they need.

If you really want to learn more, we have a long term Business English course that will help you reach your goals available in our schools.

Here we continue on from yesterday's Business English lesson theme. Let’s see how familiar you are with these words. Can you choose the correct definition of each one?

These words are taken from different areas of business including sales, marketing, finance and more.

• 1 - Risk (noun):
  
  A business trip.
  Possibility of loss/injury.
  Profits.
  The amount of workers at a company.
  
  
• 2 - Deal (noun):
  
  Closed letter or box.
  A business presentation.
  A room where meetings are held.
  A business transaction
  
  
• 3 - Inflation (noun):
  
  A time when there is not much business activity.
  Rate at which prices increase.
  Move from one country to another.
  Stay the same and not grow or develop.
  
  
• 4 - Promote (verb):
  
  Discussing something with someone in order to reach an agreement.
  Try to increase sales of a product by publicity/advertising.
  Commercials that appear on TV/radio/magazines.
  Average number of copies of newspapers/magazines sold over a period of time.
  
  
• 5 - Debit (noun):
  
  An amount of money that is given back to you.
  Unable to continue in business because you cannot pay your debts.
  A piece of paper that proves that money/goods were paid for.
  An amount taken from a bank account.
  
  
• 6 - R & D Department (noun):
  
  Department responsible for deliveries and transport.
  Department responsible for research and development of new products.
  Department responsible for marketing and advertising.
  Department responsible for training and hiring.
  
  
• 7 - Terms (noun):
  
  Disagreement
  Companies.
  Conditions.
  Start again.
  
  
• 8 - Employee (noun):
  
  Boss.
  A person looking for a job.
  Person employed.
  A person who just lost his job.
  
  
• 9 - Merchandise (noun):
  
  Dates when deliveries are made.
  Things bought and sold.
  Free gifts given to customers.
  Things that were stolen from a shop.
  
  
• 10 - Sue (verb):
  
  To decrease the production of something.
  To start legal action against someone in a law court.
  To request for funds for a department.
  To not work on special days of the year.
  
  
• 11 - Launch (verb):
  
  To publicly introduce a new product.
  To increase your salary.
  To transfer to another location.
  To discuss business while eating.
  
  
• 12 - Minutes (noun):
  
  A written record of everything said at a meeting.
  A defect/fault in a computer program.
  Network that connects a company with its suppliers and distributors.
  Certificate issued by companies and governments to their lenders.
  
  
• 13 - Invest (Verb):
  
  To arrange to continue an official agreement.
  To start a company.
  To investigate the accounts of company.
  To put money for profit into business.
  
  
• 14 - Handout (noun):
  
  The age when people retire because they are too old to work.
  A report report/sample given to people at a presentation.
  Buying from a charity organisation.
  Applause/Clapping.
  
  
• 15 - Close (Verb):
  
  To be unhappy with a product.
  To misunderstand something.
  To finalise a deal/sale.
  To make an illegal copy of a product.